Tech Talk

The Geeks talk about the Jolla smartphone that was developed by ex-Nokia employees using the Lumia design language. Only 450 units will be available on Wednesday but will this challenge the big boys? Only time will tell. Also on the show, we discuss what it takes to be TIME's Person Of The Year. Twerking? And 3D printing of course! This time its a bioficial heart.

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With so much innovation in the world, here on Tech Talk we like to accentuate the positives. Sometimes, though, you have to stand back and wonder ‘why the hell did anyone think of that’. Founder of Kulturpop and now, with his new North Korean backed financial venture Instacoin, Matt Armitage looks at some of the worst ideas.

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Gabey Goh from Digital News Asia rounds up Disrupt #12 focusing on the Asean funding gap and the key takeaways from it that cover areas such as success begets success – as more companies make it, more money is re-injected into ecosystem and if you can’t convince a VC to fund you, you may need to re-look the business to see if it’s viable at all - See more at: http://www.digitalnewsasia.com/sizzle-fizzle/disrupt-more-success-stories-needed-to-plug-funding-gap

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Also on today's episode, Gabey talks about Malaysian Government formulating national cyber-crisis policy by outlining national strategy for ‘cyber crisis mitigation and response’ through public-private collaboration and defining the roles and responsibilities of all Critical National Information Infrastructure (CNII) agencies - See more at: http://www.digitalnewsasia.com/security/malaysian-government-formulates-national-cybercrisis-policy

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In this 2nd episode of the Do More Lah show, we speak to Vijayaratnam Tharumartnam of MDeC and Anas Abdul Aziz from Animonsta Studios on his success story and how entrepreneurs can DO MORE LAH with digital.

Digital Malaysia is a national programme to spur Malaysians to create, innovate and grow using the power of digital – creating a better life for ourselves, innovating the way we work, and growing Malaysia into a vibrant digital economy by 2020.

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In this 1st episode of the Do More Lah show, we speak to Vijayaratnam Tharumartnam of MDeC and Christy Ng from Shoe Heaven by Christy Ng on her success story and how entrepreneurs can DO MORE LAH with digital.

Digital Malaysia is a national programme to spur Malaysians to create, innovate and grow using the power of digital – creating a better life for ourselves, innovating the way we work, and growing Malaysia into a vibrant digital economy by 2020.

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According to a recent survey with 51 companies in Malaysia, ICT employment make up about 40% of the current employment size. ICT related careers are also rated as one of the top paying jobs now and in the future. We speak to Todd Thibodeaux, President and CEO of CompTIA on where Malaysia stands in terms of technology growth compared to other countries around region and trends in the IT industry.

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Michael Molsnar is the regional researcher at Kaspersky Lab Japan. Michael joined Kaspersky Lab in 2004 and currently leads the IT Security Lab of the Japanese branch of the company. He is responsible for monitoring the local threat landscape and also specialized in Anti-Phishing activities, including the discovery of accompanying data like exploits, backdoors, bots, malware and phish-kits and today, we speak about the Icefog APT and the damage caused by this attack.

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Peter Geissler is an independent security researcher and has a passion in console hacking. We find out about how difficult console hacking is and why is it not as sexy as mobile or PC hacks.

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The Geeks talk about Tesla's plan for an autonomous cars in 3 years, aiming to achieve 90% of the traveling distance in full auto pilot mode. Also on the show, they say their goodbye's to Winamp that will no longer be available come December 20th.

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It’s getting to that time of year again. When we look back over the months of 2013 and decide what the best and worst of everything has been. Getting off to an early start with the innovations of 2013 is Matt Armitage.

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